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title: Prince Hyacinth, whose nose was now just like anyone’s else, did not… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Hyacinth, whose nose was now just like anyone’s else, did not fail to profit by the lesson he had received. Who acts: Hyacinth. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 109

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Prince Hyacinth, whose nose was now just like anyone’s else, did not fail to profit by the lesson he had received.

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**Who acts:** Hyacinth · **What happens:** not fail, receive · **To what, where:** profit, lesson

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hyacinth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:3:109
# text = Prince Hyacinth, whose nose was now just like anyone’s else, did not fail to profit by the lesson he had received.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Hyacinth	Hyacinth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fail** | past · do-support |  | profit |  |  |  | by the lesson | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Eventuality |
| 2 | **receive** | past · perfect | Hyacinth | the lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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